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But this consideration did not weigh with Owen, who 
proceeded with the discussion, saying that he ' wished to 
approach the subject in the spirit of the philosopher,' and 
declared his ' conviction that there were facts by which the 
pubhc could come to some conclusion with regard to the 
probabilities of the truth of Mr. Darwin's theory.' As one of 
these facts, he asserted that the brain of the gorilla * presented 
more differences, as compared with the brain of man, than it 
did when compared with the brains of the very lowest and most 
problematical of the Quadrumana.' 
Now this proposition, enunciated by him at the Linnean 
Society in 1857, had led Huxley to investigate the whole 
question afresh. Previous research, new dissections, even the 
specimens at the Hunterian Museum under Owen's charge, 
told the opposite tale. 
Accordingly he rejoined with a * direct and unquahfied 
contradiction ' to these assertions, and pledged himself to 
* justify that unusual procedure elsewhere ' — a pledge crush- 
ingly fulfilled by his article ' On the Zoological Relations of 
Man with the Lower Animals,' which appeared in the first 
number of the Natural History Beview, January 1861. (See 
Huxley, ' Scientific Memoirs,' ii. 36.) 
Battle was in the air. The encounter was renewed on 
the Saturday, June 30, when Dr. Draper of New York read a 
paper on ' The Intellectual Development of Europe considered 
with reference to the Views of Mr. Darwin.' It was not to hear 
his hour-long discourse, however, but the coming eloquence 
of the Bishop, that the crowd gathered. The Lecture-room 
of the Museum could not hold them ; they moved to the long 
west room, since partitioned across for the purposes of the 
hbrary. Even this was crowded to suffocation long before 
the speakers appeared. Seven hundred or more managed to 
find place ; the very windows by which the room was hghted 
down the length of its west side were packed with ladies, whose 
white handkerchiefs, waving and fluttering in the air at the 
end of the Bishop's speech, were an unforgettable factor in 
the acclamation of the crowd. 
Neither of the destined champions of the day had intended 
